Anonymous wrote:

Pretty much everyone I know in MoCo hates the Hogan calendar. It's the Ocean City people who like using the school calendar as a form of corporate welfare to their beach resorts.

Yeah no. People hate what MCPS has done in response to the labor day opening. They don't hate ending mid June and starting after Labor Day. It comes down to whether you look at other counties and notice that "Hey wait, all those other counties still have a normal spring break and winter break with the mid-June-labor day calendar, why can't MCPS do that" or if you just believe whatever BS MCPS gives you.

MCPS is a political beast. They intentionally made the calendar as screwy as possible combining it with the spin that they had no choice and just assuming no one would look at other counties. The intent was to get people in MoCo to push to give MCPS back control of the calendar. We'll see if it works.

Anonymous wrote:

Pretty much everyone I know in MoCo hates the Hogan calendar. It's the Ocean City people who like using the school calendar as a form of corporate welfare to their beach resorts.

Yeah no. People hate what MCPS has done in response to the labor day opening. They don't hate ending mid June and starting after Labor Day. It comes down to whether you look at other counties and notice that "Hey wait, all those other counties still have a normal spring break and winter break with the mid-June-labor day calendar, why can't MCPS do that" or if you just believe whatever BS MCPS gives you.

MCPS is a political beast. They intentionally made the calendar as screwy as possible combining it with the spin that they had no choice and just assuming no one would look at other counties. The intent was to get people in MoCo to push to give MCPS back control of the calendar. We'll see if it works.

Anonymous wrote:
The Dems have a veto-proof majority in the legislature, don't they? So, when the BOE entertains the new calendar without the arbitrary restrictions set by Hogan, all of the posters who like the longer summer can have their say.

Why would we need a referendum??

Pretty much everyone I know in MoCo hates the Hogan calendar. It's the Ocean City people who like using the school calendar as a form of corporate welfare to their beach resorts.

Anonymous wrote:The Dems have a veto-proof majority in the legislature, don't they? So, when the BOE entertains the new calendar without the arbitrary restrictions set by Hogan, all of the posters who like the longer summer can have their say.

Why would we need a referendum??

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Yes, but Hogan is trying to get a referendum vote on the ballot. Current estimates are that 70% of residents favor the Governor's XO vs the school district calendars and a referendum will override the legislature.

So how does a referendum in MD work? Do voters need to come out for a special vote? Is the measured tabled until the next election cycle in 2020 and it becomes a ballot measure?

70% of residents may favor the Gov's plan BUT its the school unions that are against it. They will be handing out Apple ballots to everyone without kids telling them teachers don't want the gov's plan (regardless of whether teachers want it or not).

The labor unions in MD are like the NRA -it often doesn't matter what 70%-90% of the citizens actually want.

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Anonymous wrote:

"Obscure religious holidays" = "religious holidays I don't observe"

No they are religious holidays that the government and work places do not observe. If everything else was closed on those days fine but somehow MCPS is special and needs to be the ONLY place closed on those days.

In the survey MCPS did last year, 17% of staff said they would not be at work on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. They would not have enough substitutes for that number of people.

Anonymous wrote:Mcps decided our children couldn't have 5 days off for Spring Break this year.

Don't tell me teachers care about how the children fare in AP classes. My kid has a long-term substitute in one of their APs and was harrassed to the point dropping out of an AP last year for not offering accommodations and after getting physically assaulted on school grounds sustaining a concussion.

I fully support Governor Hogan and his interest in keeping MoCo students safe.

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Anonymous wrote:The governor has already said he will fight any effort to change the calendar.

Yes, but there's a supermajority in the General Assembly to override his veto.

Yes, but Hogan is trying to get a referendum vote on the ballot. Current estimates are that 70% of residents favor the Governor's XO vs the school district calendars and a referendum will override the legislature.

Anonymous wrote:

Yes, but Hogan is trying to get a referendum vote on the ballot. Current estimates are that 70% of residents favor the Governor's XO vs the school district calendars and a referendum will override the legislature.

So how does a referendum in MD work? Do voters need to come out for a special vote? Is the measured tabled until the next election cycle in 2020 and it becomes a ballot measure?

70% of residents may favor the Gov's plan BUT its the school unions that are against it. They will be handing out Apple ballots to everyone without kids telling them teachers don't want the gov's plan (regardless of whether teachers want it or not).

The labor unions in MD are like the NRA -it often doesn't matter what 70%-90% of the citizens actually want.

Yes, but Hogan is trying to get a referendum vote on the ballot. Current estimates are that 70% of residents favor the Governor's XO vs the school district calendars and a referendum will override the legislature.

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Anonymous wrote:The governor has already said he will fight any effort to change the calendar.

Yes, but there's a supermajority in the General Assembly to override his veto.

Anonymous wrote:

"Obscure religious holidays" = "religious holidays I don't observe"

No they are religious holidays that the government and work places do not observe. If everything else was closed on those days fine but somehow MCPS is special and needs to be the ONLY place closed on those days.